Event Bios
BIOS OF SPEAKERS AND WORSHIP/ PRAISE/ DANCE ARTISTS
FOR THE 17TH ANNUAL 2025 POSITIONED TO BE BLESSED CONFERENCE
Speaker & Founder
Evangelist Joycelyn Williams
Welcome to positionedtobeblessed.com. Evangelist Joycelyn Williams is the founder of Joycelyn Williams Ministries. A ministry for the broken-hearted with a vision to see them restored.
Joycelyn Williams is a Bible teacher, psalmist, and speaker. She has been with her true love, Johnnie, for many years. Together, they have one daughter, three grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
In the Inland Empire, Los Angeles, and other places, she has preached the gospel at conferences, retreats, and churches. She worked in the prison and rehabilitation ministries as well. She has a servant's heart and is an active leader in her church, serving in several positions.
Bio: Deborah Massawe
Special Music Artist
Deborah Massawe is a Senior at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a lifelong resident of Temecula, California. Through worship, she has served the Lord's heart. She has been a worship and youth leader at her home church, The Rock Church of Temecula Valley, since 2017. In addition to caring for God's presence through song, she also mentors the next generation. Deborah served as the worship leader at New Culture, a midwestern church in the heart of Madison, Wisconsin, for her first two years of college. Her parents Dennis and Lulu Massawe, moved by the Lord, encouraged her to sing at a nearby Christian forum, which marked the beginning of her call to worship at the Cerritos Performing Arts Center. Deborah's passion in corporate worship these days is to work in tandem with the Holy Spirit to exalt Christ and make the revelation of Jesus known in all of His redemptive power.
Bio: Pastor Teresa Taylor
Worship Music
Teresa Taylor is a songwriter/vocalist/musician/producer who has been directly involved in Christian music for most of her life. "The Best-kept Secret in Christian Music" is how some have referred to her. She has served as a music director in a number of churches in Florida, Maryland, and California since earning her degree in music. She has ministered at well-known crusades and conferences, and on television and radio. She has also been involved in many national music ministry conferences teaching seminars on the art of songwriting, choral directing, piano/keyboard techniques, vocal techniques and music production and recording. She has more than 40 years of experience instructing piano and voice privately.
Teresa has worked with well-known secular artists such as, Stevie Wonder, Kirk Whalum, Billy Preston, Michael Bolton and Paul Jackson, Jr.
She has also worked along with great Christian artists such as, Michael Tait, Andre Crouch, Mary Mary, Kurt Carr, and many others.
Since 2002, Teresa has served as The Rock Church Temecula Valley's worship pastor. In addition, she owns Sundae Music Group, which consists of Sundae Music Recording Studio, an independent record label, and a school of music. She has produced CDs for artists signed by her label and other independent artists. Teresa has also co-written multiple musicals and has six albums of her own.
Bio: Sasha Brianne RaShein Mahone
Worship In Dance
Introducing Sasha Brianne RaShein Mahone – A Dance of Praise and Victory!
Sasha Brianne RaShein Mahone is a devoted wife, mother, and passionate worshiper who will be ministering through dance at the Positioned to Be Blessed Women's Conference: The Battle Is Already Won. With a heart for worship and a lifetime of experience in praise dance, Sasha has been dancing in church since her youth, using her gifts to glorify God and create powerful moments of worship that uplift and inspire.
A former member of the traveling dance team Souled Out, Sasha has shared her ministry far and wide, spreading the love of Christ through her anointed performances. She also served as a choreographer for Rise Up Dance Ministry for five years, where she guided and mentored others in expressing their faith through movement.
In addition to her love for dance, Sasha has a passion for singing and seeks every opportunity to glorify God with her voice and her praise. Whether through dance or song, Sasha’s mission is to touch hearts, encourage others, and help lead them into the presence of the Lord.
Sasha is honored to be part of The Battle Is Already Won conference and is excited to worship in dance alongside women who are ready to step into the blessings and victory that God has already prepared for them.